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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

Benjamin E. Mays

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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Capture Disaster Ideals
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
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Born Men Strive
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
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Battle Liberty Today
It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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Goal Life Reaching Stars
[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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Believe May Today Tomorrow
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.
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Leadership Mean Motivation
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Dream Reaching Goals Stars
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
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Art Boys Halfway Normal White

The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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